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The emergence of reflexive global labour law

The article introduces the main tenets of reflexive labour law and uses this perspective to interpret core trends in global labour law. It suggests a conceptual distinction between international and global labour law and identifies a transformation in the global labour law regime related to processes of reflexivity and constitutionalisation. The first part of the article analyses reflexivity within the International Labour Organization (ILO) in relation to its policy of defining labour standards as human rights. It interprets the increasing attention given to soft law in the ILO as a reflexive response to the globalisation of labour law outside the confines of the nation state. The core reflexive law concept of regulation of self-regulation is applied to analyse a key source of global labour law, namely codes of conduct regulating corporate citizenship and corporate social responsibility programmes in multinational companies. In the final section, the article argues that global labour law is emerging as a separate regime in the world society and comments on constitutionalisation as a key process in the emerging regime of global labour law.

Alternative title
Die Herausbildung eines reflexiven globalen Arbeitsrechts
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Industrielle Beziehungen ; ISSN: 1862-0035 ; Volume: 22 ; Year: 2015 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 72-90 ; Mering: Rainer Hampp Verlag

Classification
Wirtschaft
Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Voting; Proxy Contests; Corporate Governance
Labor Standards: General
Labor Law
Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior: General
Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility
Subject
global labour law
reflexive labour law
codes of conduct
corporate social responsibility
corporate citizenship

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Rogowski, Ralf
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Rainer Hampp Verlag
(where)
Mering
(when)
2015

DOI
doi:10.1688/IndB-2015-01-Rogowski
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  • Artikel

Associated

  • Rogowski, Ralf
  • Rainer Hampp Verlag

Time of origin

  • 2015

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